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tiny wren lit focuses on tiny poems + tiny issues (2-3 times per year). Readers can download each issue in a zine format. Home of the tiny zine. Subs open. Web: www.tinywrenlit.com

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tiny wren lit @tinywrenlit.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Cover reveal for our 4th anthology LIM[I]NAL with guest editor @jenniferabrowne.bsky.social. Get ready to spend some time in liminal spaces.

A tiny wren anthology, LIM[I]NAL, edited by Jennifer Browne & Dana Knott

Cover art: A line of distant trees with round mountains behind them

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tiny wren lit @tinywrenlit.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Keep sending us your tiny poems for our Lim[I]nal anthology with guest editor @jenniferabrowne.bsky.social. tinywrenlit.com/submit

Large quote marks graphic above a quote by William Blake: “In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between them, there are doors.”

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tiny wren lit @tinywrenlit.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Here's a chance to see your work in print! Submit to our 4th print anthology! www.tinywrenlit.com/submit

liminal
[adj]
“Of or pertaining to a threshold,” 1870, from Latin limen “threshold, cross-piece, sill” (see limit (n.)) + -al (1). Related: Liminality
Online Etymology Dictionary

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tiny wren lit @tinywrenlit.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Cover reveal for LUCKY NUMBER 13, a tiny chapbook by wrenster Robert James Cross! Coming soon!

Cover Text: Lucky Number 13; poems Robert James Cross
Image: art titled "Tenant" by Aron Wiesenfeld depicts a young man sitting on a mattress with his hands in his lap in a dilapidated room. The worn and partially erased image of an older man in a suit sits across from him.

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tiny wren lit @tinywrenlit.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Happy Winter Solstice, a time for renewal.

Text: Script "Winter Solstice" and "tiny wren wishes you a magical Winter Solstice"
Image: A brown winter wren sitting on a branch and framed by a sparse wreath of green leaves.

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tiny wren lit @tinywrenlit.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Congratulations to our wrensters nominated for the Pushcart Prize 2026!

Pushcart Prize Noms

“stable dreams” by Natalie Korman
Issue 8

“Words as Homing Pigeons Fly” by Merril D. Smith
Issue 8

“Archipelago” by Steph Cheng
Earth: Poems of Presence and Possibility

“Things My Body Has Held” by Mizuki Yamagen
Issue 9

“Things I Can’t Translate” by Mizuki Yamagen Issue 9

“White Rabbit” by Elena Zhang
The Moon, My Heart

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tiny wren lit @tinywrenlit.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Pick a card. Submissions for Issue Ten: Major Arcana open on Oct. 20th. #majorarcana #tarot #fate #divination #micropoetry

A tarot card from the Major Arcana with a figure of a woman with flowing hair, sitting in the lotus position, and a starburst crown against a dark background. Text: Issue Ten: Major Arcana.

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tiny wren lit @tinywrenlit.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Cover reveal for Eric Hadley's tiny chapbook "Misunderstanding Silence"

Cover: Black background with rectangle of green and white like a curtain. Text: Misunderstanding Silence: Tiny Poems By Eric Hadley

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tiny wren lit @tinywrenlit.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Congratulations to our Best of the Net nominees!

Floral background in the style of William Morris. Text: Best of the Net, tiny wren lit
Memento Mori (8/27/2024)
“Last Wish,” Karen Grace Soans
“Stillborn,” Vic Nogay
“Rupture,” Paul Allatson

Golden Shovel (2/14/2025)
“stable dreams,” Natalie Korman
“Every Falling,” CX Wang
“Words as Homing Pigeons Fly,” Merril D. Smith

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tiny wren lit @tinywrenlit.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Tiny bursts of beauty. Our latest tiny chap "The Moon, My Heart" by Elena Zhang is now available in the tiny wren shop. www.tinywrenlit.com/product-page...

The Moon, My Heart chapbook resting on the sculpture of a merged sun and moon face with a glass tealight in the background.

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tiny wren lit @tinywrenlit.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Cover reveal for Elena Zhang's tiny chapbook "The Moon, My Heart" with cover art by Aleah Dye. Coming soon to the tiny wren shop.

A silvery full moon against a background of purple and gray skies and cherry blossoms in the foreground. Text: The Moon, My Heart; poems; Elene Zhang.

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tiny wren lit @tinywrenlit.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Our top 10 finalists for tiny wren's micro-chapbook contest. Love to everyone who shared their wee poems. So much brilliance!

Image: Wren on a branch
Text: Top Ten Finalists
tiny wren's tiny chaps contest

D.W. Baker, “Digging Someone Else’s Grave”
Sam Calhoun, “Apparitions”
Robert James Cross, “Lucky Number 13”
Eric Hadley, “Misunderstanding Silence”
Laurie Koensgen, “when light breaks clean”
Kelli Lage, “Reservoir Reverie”
Sasha Weiss, “pain clinic party”
Ashley White, “Ten Tiny Poems for One Giant Loss”
A.R. Williams, “Between Worlds and Woods”
Elena Zhang, “The Moon, My Heart”

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tiny wren lit @tinywrenlit.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Manuscript responses are forthcoming. In the meantime, enjoy these tiny golden shovels by CX Wang.

Every Falling
after "One Heart" by Li Young Lee

The last time we met here even
the wind was a poet, your hair flying
like tossed branches beneath steel clouds. This is
how heartbreak is born:
love is extracted out
of memory, longing out of
nothing

We apple to earth in every ending

after "A Sweetening All Around Me as it Falls" by Jane Hirschfield

October sun scented of new apples
picked at their peak. I thought love
was simply that black seed in earth,
had only one purpose—growing — and
only one end— falling.

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tiny wren lit @tinywrenlit.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Cover reveal for our 3rd print anthology "Earth: Poems of Presence and Possibility," landing soon in the tiny wren shop.

Cover image: “Flower study” by John Jessop Hardwick, 1866.
Text above image: EARTH: Poems of Presence and Possibility.
Text below image: Edited by Dana J. Graef & Dana Knott

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tiny wren lit @tinywrenlit.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Lovely golden shovel poem by Leusa Lloyd for a cold winter day.

Nearing Winter

after "Funeral Blues" by W. H. Auden

Tell the trees to stop
their uncrowning. All
I hear in the wind is the
curlew, set to ticking clocks.

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tiny wren lit @tinywrenlit.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Issue 8, our golden shovel issue, is now live: www.tinywrenlit.com/issue-8 Love and appreciation to our wrenster poets, submitters, and readers.

Cover of tiny wren lit, issue 8.1, golden shovel, printable zine. Top of image has a half circle with dark blue, orange, and yellow stripes. Beneath, three crescents from yellow, dark blue, and orange.

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tiny wren lit @tinywrenlit.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Get your tiny poems together. Submission period for tiny chapbook manuscripts opens on Jan. 31.

image: head of a winter wren (troglodytes hiemalis)
Text: tiny wren publishing / call for tiny chapbooks /submissions open jan. 31 / visit our Submit page for more details

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tiny wren lit @tinywrenlit.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Excited to share the wrensters we nominated for the Pushcart.

Lined paper torn from notebook taped to a wall. Note lists the nominated poets and their poems:

“Introduction” by Elizabeth Anne Schwartz
(from Nine Stage of Coming Out/Feb. 2024)

“She Strikes the Match” by Arlene Geller
(Issue 6/Mar. 2024)

“What If—” by Dana Graef
(from Vanishing/Apr. 2024)

“Miscarriage” by Melissa Joplin Higley
(Issue 7/Aug. 2024)

“Teeth” by Thom Schramm
(Issue 7/Aug. 2024)

“All Poems Are About Death” by Paul Hostovsky
(Issue 7/Aug. 2024)

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tiny wren lit @tinywrenlit.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Blue Monday

Foreground: Three chapbooks published by tiny wren (under fire | under water; Nine Stages of Coming Out; and Peninsula

Middleground: A folkart carving of a sleeping cat on a book

Background: Painting of a cat sitting on a table and next to a terracotta pot of flowers; behind the cat, turquoise blue building with a red roof

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